The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Ledyard, Stephanie Parsley

Pie Is for Sharing

32 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | May, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-62672-562-1 $17.99

(1) PS Illustrated by Jason Chin. In this idyllic picture book, a boy and his family bike to a community picnic, bearing several pies. As Ledyard's text muses on the nature of sharing, Chin's detailed watercolor and gouache pictures take us through the Fourth of July celebration. The book ends poignantly, with Chin zeroing in on faces--a true diversity of races, genders, and ages--all sharing the same rapt expression watching fireworks.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2018